AN INTEGRATED FRAMEWORK FOR THE STUDY OF ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION

Sonny S. Ariss () and Vafa Saboori Deilami ()
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Sonny S. Ariss: Department of Management, College of Business Administration, University of Toledo, 2801 W. Bancroft Street, Toledo, OH 43606, USA
Vafa Saboori Deilami: Department of Information Operations and Technology Management, College of Business Administration, University of Toledo, 2801 W. Bancroft Street, Toledo, OH 43606, USA

International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management (IJITM), 2012, vol. 09, issue 01, 1-26

Abstract: Despite the many attempts of researchers to integrate the innovation literature, it continues to be fragmented and its results not cumulative. After a thorough review of the literature, this article proposes an integrative framework that reconciles the theories of innovation by having the types of innovation on one dimension and the degrees of innovation on the other dimension to reduce the confusion in the field and further the development of a workable theory of innovation management. The many factors that influence innovation are then identified and categorized along a four-by-four framework to lead to a comprehensive classification that will reduce the ambiguity and inconsistency in the innovation literature. The implications of this framework for future research on innovation as a profitable product or service are addressed.

Keywords: Organizational innovation; innovation framework; types of innovation; degrees of innovation; radical innovation; innovation factors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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